Prime Advent II: The Touched of Christmas

Lords and Ladies!

The time has come to start a new round of Prime Advent and fire the third candle! A rich old Lord has recently become a widower and does not want to spend the Christmas alone. He has sent his heralds all over Praia to announce that a storytelling contest will take place in his family Castle. The Lord himself is a boring old man, but the reward will definitely attract a lot of guests.

Who in the world will refuse winning a unique legendary talent?

The Touched of Christmas

Describe or draw a special Christmas monster.

Post your description in the comment section below this news.

Take your chance and win the recently introduced unique legendarytalents!

Please Note:

We accept an unlimited amount of entries from each participant, but only one of them can win.

Not more than 3000 signs.

The monster should fit into the Prime World universe.

Additional artwork is a big plus.

The touched have 1-2 abilities at their disposal. Please invent some interesting skills for your monster!

In old English mythology from Great Britain, there is said to be a phantom White Stag that appears only in winter-time, which comes out at midnight to haunt the forest near the tree where a man once committed suicide by hanging:

Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest,
Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns;
And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle,
And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain
In a most hideous and dreadful manner.
You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know
The superstitious idle-headed eld
Receiv'd, and did deliver to our age,
This tale of Herne the Hunter for a truth.
— William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Yield blood (passive): The more damage a hero takes from Herne the Hunter's melee attacks while Herne is still alive, the slower the champion is able to move as the ice consumes them.

Hideous and Dreadful: Herne charges through the closest champion/champions ending far behind the hero, dealing X damage and all other creatures and soldiers on the map deal an extra 40 true damage per hit for 180 seconds.

Round the Oak Tree (passive): If Herne stands at a Touched camp he relocates position in a large circle in front of the camp, moving once every 5 seconds so that is a little difficult for heroes to catch him through pursuit. If Herne is running down a lane or path, he will attack a target and then move away from it after 5 seconds to a new position trying to form a large circle around the enemy while charging through them with his charge attack.

The ancient Aztecs had a myth of 400 mythical rabbit gods of drunkenness called the Centzon Totochtin, and, among his brothers and sisters, Tezxatzoncatl was known as "The Straw Mirror':

Tezcatzoncatl – ‘The Straw Mirror’: Another divine rabbit is called Tezcatzoncatl. He is the God of the Drunkards and according to the myth he was a big one himself too. From time to time Tezcatzoncatl was referred to as ‘The Straw Mirror’, in which of course the drunken state is meant in which you can see as much as when looking in a mirror made of straw.

The spirit of Tezxatzoncatl has been drawn to Praia by the winter festivities (as were the angels and demons for other reasons in their time), and he has been corrupted with his kin by the flows of Prime in the forest, and now the avatars of these rabbit gods live on as a multiplying horde of Touched.

Pulque: The hero nearest this giant drunk rabbit becomes disoriented and stumbles backwards X amount and then X(a little),Y(a medium amount), or Z(a lot) amount of distance in a randomly assigned second direction

Macuil Tochtli: Tezxatzoncatl spawns five rabbit duplicates as he takes damage (one each 15% of health lost), to represent the 400 (or infinite) states of drunkenness symbolized by his brothers and sisters.

Straw Mirror: Three seconds after being melee attacked by Tezxatzoncatl or one of his duplicates, the hero's attack will do 0 damage for .25 seconds, because the hero will be drunkenly attacking the ground while mistakenly thinking that it is one of the Centzon Totochtin.

The Final of the four Advent Prime Events fortold by the sages to be taking part in the year's final month somehow did not arrive. The lords Eserine and Hisoka Illoson had both found and recorded instances of rare winter-season Touched in their realm and for their dangerous inquiries were recognized among the people as Winter Masters of the Frost-Touched, and yet still the poets squabbled and bickered over their festival profits, and an eerie, unanswering silence fell across the aural realms of Praia. A soothsayer wept hysterically and clawed out her her eyes with the end of a candy cane, claiming that the FOURTH ADVENT EVENT was mystically transmuting into a dark and sinister entity of doom, a creature unlike any that had ever been seen or conceived of in the halls of men and heroes. The shamans wailed in horror while the scientists enumerated strange changes observed in the predicted environmental patterns of winter, while the earth trembled in awe at the birth of a new era.

in the grey dawn of the year's end, those lords and ladies who had earned the laurels of Winter Champions traveled together with their armies and courts and fighters to a spot in the forest where there rose an ancient and abandoned palace. There, sitting atop a frosted throne of Touched corpses sat The Fourth Advent wrapped in a tattered robe, faintly humming a Christmas carol from its torn and jagged jaws.

Lords Eserine and Hisoka Illoson strode forward dragging the dissected, mutated remains of a three headed dragon, a massive white stag, and a giant spectral rabbit, throwing them onto the gathered pile of death. In unison the two men standing before the beast in silence drew swords from their belts, fitted with hilts of snow-white ivory set with twining mystic imprints of evergreen winter holly and mistletoe. All the onlookers in this fallen great hall also drew their weapons and held them ready to charge at the torn, demented freak who watched atop the pile.

Hisoka Illoson pointed his sword at the monster and shouted "By the command of The Old Gods and our just sacrifice, you will end this madness a once!"

"Madness?" croaked the Fourth Advent. The polar lights of an aurora ignited through the sky above the hall as an insane, twisted whisper echoed throughout the palace from the beast: "With a Spirit of Swiftness, the Colossal Potential for Frozen Vengeance will be Forged in Cruelty from my Perpetual Victory".

With this, the Fourth Advent leapt into the air.

"ATTACK!" shouted Lord Eserine.

Abilities:

Disappearance: The Fourth Advent ceases to be visible for an extended period of time

Your Shoes Are Mine: If hit by the Fourth Advent, all boots are disabled and unusable for the rest of the game because you could not ever win any boots because the fourth advent contest never happened, similar to the end of the third advent event.

Corpse Claw Rend Slice: If a hero dies from The Fourth Advent in the service or protection of a lord or lady, they arise in the frozen Winter Palace of Touched corpses instead of their home-realm, without memory of who they are or any of their skills, since the Fourth Advent is an avatar of oblivion.